Página 120First came the growth of suburban homeownership and the use of outdoor living
space for cooking and entertaining. To the suburban refugees from the central
cities, charcoal broiling represented the fulfillment of pent-up recreational and ...

Página 163There is usually a simple solution to the problem of contaminated flesh: cook it.
And since there is no reason why insects cannot be cooked, the same advice
applies to the problem of contaminated insect flesh. Humans probably do not
usually ...

Acerca del autor (1987)

Marvin Harris is an American anthropologist who was educated at Columbia University, where he spent much of his professional career. Beginning with studies on race relations, he became the leading proponent of cultural materialism, a scientific approach that seeks the causes of human behavior and culture change in survival requirements. His explanations often reduce to factors such as population growth, resource depletion, and protein availability. A controversial figure, Harris is accused of slighting the role of human consciousness and of underestimating the symbolic worlds that humans create. He writes in a style that is accessible to students and the general public, however, and his books have been used widely as college texts.